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Is this car only regionally popular? I have yet to see a single Tesla on DC area roads.
by oinksoft 13y ago
Is this car only regionally popular? I have yet to see a single Tesla on DC area roads.
- spicyj 13y agoIt's amazingly popular in the SF Bay Area; I see several each day on my 2-mile commute to work (right next to Google, but still). However, I also saw one when I was in New Orleans a couple weeks ago, so it's not just SF.
- general_failure 13y agoI don't think you can generalize it to Bay area.
- spicyj 13y agoI see them all the time on 101 as well.
- sliverstorm 13y agoSo, near the Bay Area?
- spicyj 13y agoYes, I believe general_failure meant, "you can't generalize 'near Google' to 'Bay Area'", so I elaborated to say that I've seen many in the Bay Area, not just near Google.
- sliverstorm 13y agoAh, I totally misunderstood.
- thrownaway2424 13y agoThere's 5 within two blocks of my house in Oakland.
- namlem 13y agoI saw one in Toronto!
- sliverstorm 13y agoOf course, the SF Bay Area is its own special little bubble. Inferring nationwide vehicle choice based on the SF Bay would be like living in Boulder and assuming the rest of the nation is also Prius-crazed.
- spicyj 13y agoHah! Before this I lived in Boulder and did indeed feel like everyone drove Priuses. (Although, my current office of 40 people has three people who drive Priuses of the same color… but point still taken.)
- dgregd 13y ago> It's amazingly popular in the SF Bay Area That shows how many early adopters live in the SF Bay Area.
- vasilipupkin 13y agoTons of them in Chicago as well
- timjahn 13y agoReally? I'm on the Blue Line down the Kennedy most mornings/evenings, often looking out at the gridlocked traffic, and have yet to see a single one.
- ams6110 13y agoI've never seen one on the road. I think they are mostly a California thing right now.
- japaget 13y agoMore a Northern California thing. Here in the Los Angeles area I've seen only one on the road.
- bartonfink 13y agoI see one just about every other day cruising downtown Denver.
- hanley 13y agoThere's a dealership near Evans & Monaco. Weird place for it, right next to a McDonald's and a dispensary.
- bartonfink 13y agoAlso one in Park Meadows where I live. Slightly less weird...
- twoodfin 13y agoCambridge, MA unsurprisingly loves them.
- geerlingguy 13y agoI saw one in St. Louis a couple weeks ago; it even had MO plates, so it wasn't someone traveling cross-country.
- cookiecaper 13y agoTraveling cross-country would be pretty difficult with the Model S right now. It requires a full recharge every 200-300 miles, which takes several hours except at special Tesla-operated "supercharger" stations (which take about 35 minutes to recharge the car, v. 5 mins to refill a gas tank), which are currently quite scarce.
- CamperBob2 13y agoThey're popular in the Seattle area, certainly.
- emehrkay 13y agoI find that hard to believe because I see LOTS of them in Baltimore. Baltimore
- danwink 13y agoI see one probably once a week in Austin.
- scragg 13y agoBesides the one in my garage :), I've only seen 2 in the wild around DFW area. (excluding the ones I see parked at the service center)
- christiangenco 13y agoThere are at least two on Southern Methodist University's campus in Dallas.
- mikestew 13y agoCould be. Here on the Eastside of Seattle, I parked next to one at Cougar Mt. Park on Friday, and saw one driving around today. It would be a stretch to say that I see one every day, but there are plenty around here. (And, yes, some sightings are probably repeats.)
- Encosia 13y agoI saw a Model S here in Roswell Georgia (~20 minutes North of Atlanta) a couple weeks ago.
- dkrich 13y agoReally? I live in DC and see them fairly often. Because Tesla is installing power stations primarily between NYC and DC, I would think this is one region where you would be most likely to see them, actually.
- rimantas 13y agoIt would be interesting to know how good they are outside of the warm California.
- johnward 13y agoIn CA you see them everywhere, but I live in OH/WV/PA area and I've seen a handful. There is one heading the opposite way of my commute every day.
- matthewmcg 13y agoI see one every few days here in Atlanta. Of course I see about twenty times as many Nissan Leafs.
- golgo13 13y agoI'm in Austin TX and I've seen at least 5 of them here on Loop 360. Then again, there is that whole dealer issue thing in Texas: http://www.chron.com/cars/article/Texas-lawmakers-won-t-approve-Tesla-dealerships-4579344.php http://www.chron.com/cars/article/Texas-lawmakers-won-t-appr...
- DEinspanjer 13y agoOurs was in DC back in April. :) We took a road trip from Salem, NH to DC for school vacation. We visited the DC Tesla store and charged up there and I saw one other Model S "in the wild" valet parked while walking the town. They are not as commonplace on the eastern side as they are in California. Back in June, there were somewhere between 300 and 400 in the New England area. Probably about the same in the states surrounding DC.